Egein:

It's not an FDI. MainOne is a Nigerian company.

Egein:

It's not an FDI. MainOne is a Nigerian company.

NGpatriot:
This is why Lagos collects nearly all the investment money entering Nigeria.

Africa's Silicon Valey.

PotatoSalad:
Beautiful. People in the South East, see we can never have investments like this.
We think we're pushing an agenda by sitting at home and destroying government facilities, not knowing we're scaring investors away. No sensible company would want to invest in a place with fickle minded and butthurt individuals
By the time we're balls deep in this mess, it'd be mission failed successfully.

chigoziri2403:
Lagos should still be the capital of Nigeria

obynzo:


Can you stop being stupid for once

Golan007:
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When Sanwo-olu launches taxi services you guys remind him that it is not the business of Lagos.

Now, you want to tell us this is a private investment.

I'm sure you prefer he invests in a brewery.

PointZerom:


Is it the sit at home that made Dangote not to have any investment in SE even though Igbos patronize him more than any tribe in Nigeria?
When did the sit at home start?
Is it the sit at home that made your government not to construct any rail in SE?

You should know that what's happening to Igbos is beyond sit at home.
There's secret plan toake make sure SE remains on the floor but God is faithful.

obynzo:


What is wrong with what the initial poster said?

Golan007:


You hate the truth.

Golan007:


Sharap.

I would continue to call you out when your intention is to mislead and reduce the progress the state continues to make.

Most annoyingly, your type can find no better state to live or make enterprise.

Always writing rubbish.

Golan007:


You hate the truth.

PotatoSalad:

Oga I live in the south east. It's best we start telling ourselves the truth. Nobody in their right mind will invest in the South East now with all the nonsense going on

PotatoSalad:

Bro that's to show you the mentality of the people I share the South East with. You tell them the bitter truth, they call you efulefu

winterfell007:


Even if Southeast was not enmeshed with insecurities, we still wouldn’t compete with Lagos. Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of West-Africa. Lagos is hugely benefitting from Nigeria’s huge population.
Port Harcourt ought to have been the nerve centre of the eastern region as Lagos is to western region and by extension West Africa but they lost all that due to myopic thinking. If
You check the master plan of Michael Okpara, you’d be amaze the how much plan they put in the Aba-Portharcourt precinct. Port Harcourt would have given Lagos a stiff competition because not only would she be a huge commercial centre, oil wealth would have made her a lot richer than Lagos. People would migrate to the garden-city as a first choice before considering Lagos. But we’ve lost all that to greed and ethnic insecurities

obynzo:


Go and sit down you don't live in south east. Stop playing games abeg.

uvie66:
With IPOB on the rampage and sit at home on Monday...my brother this is not selling Okirika

obynzo:


Oga which mislead? He is saying a fact it is a private investment Lagos did nothing to encourage that investment. It is common sense to have a data center like this in Lagos because all the heavy data usage for companies is in Lagos and mind you Lagos had that status as the capital of Nigeria from Colonial times till the 90s so it is nothing fantastic that Lagos state government did bros cool down with the image laundering.

NGpatriot:
Sanwo Olu Commissions MDXi Data Centre In Lagos. PICTURES.

NGpatriot:
Sanwo Olu Commissions MDXi Data Centre In Lagos. PICTURES.

NarutUzumaki7th:
Great Initiative from the Lagos State Government because proper use of data defines how a society would be driven.

yuping:
please what is this Mdx, I'm just hearing it for the first time.

NGpatriot:
This is why Lagos collects nearly all the investment money entering Nigeria.

Africa's Silicon Valey.

Fuckingmallam45:

Instead of you to use your phone wisely, you have Google on your phone, if you see anything that's not clear to you, you search the thing online. This will not cost you anything, what did you want to see 5 years from now?? Something that have been in existence for a long period of time here in Nigeria and the whole West Africa at large. You better learn, you will not die.

PotatoSalad:

Oga I live in the south east. It's best we start telling ourselves the truth. Nobody in their right mind will invest in the South East now with all the nonsense going on

Munamoqel:
mean while other are doing sit at home and banditary .soon na Lagos will be the only civilised place .

Biodun556:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/22/how-lagos-transport-union-thugs-or-agberos-make-n123-billion-motorists-riders-every-year—

LAGOS ‘AGBEROS’ GENERATE ANNUAL REVENUE OF N123 BILLION, REPORT SAYS
“If Lagos Agberos were to constitute themselves into a state, they would be richer than 35 Nigerian states, second only to their home base, Lagos state.” – Anonymous

‘Agberos’ in Lagos generate an estimated annual revenue of N123.078 billion amassed from daily road use taxes levied on bus drivers, tricycle riders and motorcycle operators in the state.

This is according to a recent research report by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).

Levies on commercial buses (danfo)
Each commercial vehicle driver pays at least N3,000 to Agberos as ticket fee.
There are an estimated 75,000 commercial buses operating in Lagos, according to the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA).
Estimated daily total collection: N225 million
Estimated monthly total collection: N6.75 billion
Estimated yearly total collection: N82.125 billion

Levies on Tricycle operators (keke napep)
Each keke napep rider pays at least N1,800 to Agberos per day.
There are an estimated 50,000 tricycles operating in Lagos, according to Techcabal.
Estimated daily total collection: N90 million
Estimated monthly total collection: N2.7 billion
Estimated yearly total collection: N32.85 billion

Levies on motorcycle operators (okada)
Each okada rider pays at least N600 to Agberos per day.
There are an estimated 37,000 okada riders operating in Lagos, according to Motorcycle Operators Association of Lagos State (MOALS).
Estimated daily total collection: N22.2 million
Estimated monthly total collection: N666 million
Estimated yearly total collection: N8.103 billion

The total annual revenue from the three major modes of transport in Lagos state amounts to N123.078 billion.

The ICIR report admitted that these figures may yet be underestimated as daily levies on the transporters are much higher in some parts of Lagos including Mushin, Isolo, Itire/Ikate among others.
Nigerian states with the highest Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020
Lagos State recorded the highest Internally Generated Revenue of N418.99 billion, accounting for 32.1% of the total, closely followed by Rivers State with N117.19 billion.
Other states with the highest IGR in 2020 include Abuja (N92.06 billion), Delta (N59.73 billion), Kaduna (N50.75 billion), Ogun (N50.75 billion), and Oyo State (N38.04 billion).

As the data shows, Lagos Agberos surpassed all other states besides Lagos in revenue generation beating oil-producing Rivers State by a handsome N5.89 billion naira.

Where is the money?
The report found no trace that much of this revenue gets into government coffers as the money was not accounted for in the state’s annual financial statements.

Also, the report revealed that “although the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says on its website that ‘road taxes’ are among the 25 taxes that are collected by the state government….the government agency provides no evidence on the website that road taxes are being collected by the state government.”

The report further revealed that although some of the revenue was being remitted to the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and to the rival union RTEAN, the bulk of the money being generated was most likely completing its journey in private pockets.

“The [motor park] chairman takes the huge chunk of the money, shares the rest to his subordinates and leaves little in an account operated by his union,” it stated.

PotatoSalad:

Bro, I've been to all states in the South East. Enugu is a solid ground for foreign investors but...
Make dem kidnap or kill foreign nationals going to work on Mondays?

PointZerom:


Is it the sit at home that made Dangote not to have any investment in SE even though Igbos patronize him more than any tribe in Nigeria?
When did the sit at home start?
Is it the sit at home that made your government not to construct any rail in SE?

You should know that what's happening to Igbos is beyond sit at home.
There's secret plan toake make sure SE remains on the floor but God is faithful.

how is your god faithful, by you sitting at home ?